story accusing menendez. that's it for us tonight. here's sean hannity. have a great weekend. >> sean: thanks, tucker. welcome to "hannity" on this busy breaking friday news tonight. part two of our exclusive interview with the leading voice of conservatism in america, the one and only rush limbaugh. we'll ask him about the deep state, liberal mainstream drive by media as he calls them, robert mueller's overreaching investigation and so much more. eric trump will join us. and i have a special message for all of you tonight, but first after coming under fire from president trump for disrespecting our flag, our national anthem, and the military, the nfl finally appears they may be getting the message. we're going to cover all of this in tonight's very, very important opening monologue.

the president is refusing to back down in his standoff with the nfl over the national anthem protesters, and if last night's game is any indication, the league may finally begin to start seeing how offensive and disrespectful the actions of some players, coaches, and honers really are to many fans. now, during the national anthem of the bears/packers game players stood, they locked arms. that's certainly an improvement over what we saw last weekend, but a lot of fans are still not liking this. and president trump reacted to what happened at the game earlier today. >> i noticed last night -- or i was told, i didn't see it -- but i heard everybody stood for the national anthem, and that shows respect for our country and the flag and the national anthem. i'm very happy. i heard that, and they should stand. you have to stand. it's our national anthem. you have to stand. >> sean: last night we also saw fans in the crowd making it

clear they're not spending their hard earned money to see players disparage the anthem, flag, and the military. take a look at some of the signs that fans were holding. protest on your own time, not on my dime. here's another. we stand. another fan held up an american flag. i say good for them. you know what? it's really not that hard to see what's going on here. in business don't you have to serve all of your customers? the nfl is now making a killing during football season. now, you include the price of tickets, parking, beer, what is it $15 a beer? hot dogs, jerseys? a family of four are spending 800 bucks to go to one game. it's a big deal. people spend that kind of money because they want to have a good time, not necessarily see players making political statements that they likely disagree with in some cases, and when the fans are holding up signs and they're shouting at the protesters on the field,

booing them and disagreeing with them, well, i only see one solution for the nfl. listen to your customers. serve your customers or you risk losing your customers. a brand-new fox news pole shows the majority of you agree were the president on this issue. 55% say it is inappropriate to kneel during our national anthem. the steelers are finally listening to their fans, and one of their well known players is saying the team will stand for the anthem this sunday. it comes after every player on the team stayed in the locker room last week except for one, and that was the former army ranger. the saints quarterback drew brees tweeted this as a way to show respect to all our saints team will kneel in solidarity prior to the national anthem and stand together during the anthem. okay. that's great. the team is choosing to stand and will not disrespect the flag or the anthem, but let's unpack

this for a second here. now, the saints game is going to be played on foreign soil this weekend in london, in england. should american sports teams like we saw last weekend really be making political statements like that over the seas? when the jaguars and ravens played, let's see they kneeled for the star spangled banner, the national anthem, and they stood for god save the queen? like i've been saying until things change with the nfl saturday is now my day for football. also, take a look at what green bay packers' quarterback aaron rodgers said after the game. watch this. >> it's never been about the national anthem. it's never been about the military. we have -- we're all patriotic in the locker room. we love our troops. this is about something bigger than that. an invitation to show unity in

the face of some divisiveness from the top in this country. >> sean: i've got a news flash for aaron rodgers. others claiming protests have nothing to do with the flag, the national anthem, or the military. take a look at what colin kaepernick said back in 2016. quote, i'm not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that opresses black people and people of color. to me this is bigger than football, and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. there are bodies in the street, and people are getting literally paid leave and getting away with murder. so unlike the false narrative that's being spread around, kaepernick's protest was all about the flag. but of course the mainstream media, they're never going to tell you about that just like he had socks that he was wearing that portrayed police officers as pigs. why?

because it goes against the political talking point of the left. there's also this stunning headline from "the washington times." now, the cop killer they're talking about is joanne chesserhard. she escaped to cuba. his website does confirm he donated 25,000 to that group. where's the outrage over that? and the socks? where are the protests? we did invite colin kaepernick. he's not doing interviews. the nfl showing stunning hypocrisy over the issue. take a look at this quote from an article written by mark thesen that we showed you earlier in the week. the manual says all players must be on the sideline for the national anthem, they must stand at attention, face the flag,

hold helmets in their left hand and refrain from talking or face discipline such as fines, suspensions and/or forfeiture of draft choices, first offense. according to that the nfl's own rules say that players should be standing for the national anthem, and if that's the case, then the nfl commissioner, roger goodell, all he has to do is enforce his league's own rules. goodell met with owners and players to talk about the controversy, but take a look at a portion of this news report. a giants' player said goodell didn't push for players to stop kneeling during the anthem, and according to espn, fox sports, other outlets, that meeting only consisted of nfl owners, players, and personnel. it doesn't appear that veterans or veterans groups were there to give their side of the issue. now, the nba commissioner said earlier this week he expects his

players to stand for the national anthem. so why is roger goodell afraid to do the same? now, according to a legal analyst even from liberal fake news cnn goodell could easily stop the protest. look at this headline. there is no constitutional right to take a knee while you're at work. and the lawyer argues, rightly so, the constitution only protects against the government, not employers from infringing upon freedom of speech rights. and there's also the fact that players who kneel for the national anthem, they're being praised of course by the left wing media, the political left in this country, but remember when former nfl quarterback, rick tim tebow, remember he was kneeling to thank god and to pray. pretty good role model. remember how he was mocked and ridiculed and accused of only doing it for attention. that's the thing. the left love to site freedom of speech when it protects whatever issue they're peddling, but when

it comes to tim tebow and he wants to express his religious freedom thanking god, then it's a huge issue. shouldn't be allowed. here with reaction the author of liberalism or how to turn good men into whiners, weenies, and wimps. saturday is my game day, spencer, big time. you know, we need unity in this country -- by the way, both of you are friends. i love and admire both of you. we need unity. and if you're in afghanistan and you want to watch an nfl game and you're fighting for the right, the average player gets $2.4 million a year and you're making less than 40 grand a year, and you're risking your life and seeing people taking a knee during the anthem, how do

you think they feel, spencer? >> listen, sean, i believe, first of all, that this was really truly thought were the anthem or disrespecting the military. i have not found one soundbite of colin kaepernick saying that. i'm not a shill for him, and i'm not defending him. i remember calling this game. it began in the preseason of 2016. it was really a protest for what colin kaepernick saw for injustice, the killing of several unarmed african-americans who had difficult exchanges with the police officers. so law enforcement being the impetus of it, he decided to sit down and not kneel. >> sean: do you know how many people died fighting under that flag? >> that's fine. >> sean: that's fine? >> we can -- no, i'm not saying it's fine that they died. if you want to make that argument you can say the millions of people over time and history whether it's jewish, african-americans in this country who died under

oppressive situations right here in this nation and in europe and abroad. we can cherry pick those situations. that's not what this is about. in football we have a strategy and approach to solving problems. we come to the line of scrimmage, we call plays, and then we execute the play. the problem here is we've not identified what the problem is. it is not disrespecting the flag or the anthem. it is the co-opting of a message. colin kaepernick was protesting something that had nothing to do with the flag. >> sean: but you didn't answer my question. i love you. spencer, you didn't answer my question. you're in afghanistan. you're fighting, and you may die fighting under that flag. you're watching the nfl, and they're kneeling for the national anthem, while the flag is flying, but they'll stand for god save the queen. what are you thinking if you're in afghanistan? >> sean, this is going to sound

like i'm protecting colin kaepernick. i'm a card carrying conservative with a conscience. what i'm suggesting to you right now in this moment it's not about the flag, it's about another set of circumstances, and the media for the most part has coopted that and turned it into this incendiary language. >> sean: the players did it. >> in your monologue you talked about the fans are upset about this. how many of them know what this is truly about or are they -- >> sean: they understand. hundreds of thousands of americans, and i'll go to burgess. hundreds of thousands died fighting under that flag. >> those guys -- >> sean: the fans are thankful for the military and what they did and they want to honor them. >> and colin kaepernick as well. he said as much. >> sean: with cops depicted as kids. >> that's minutia. >> he made a tactical error.

it was stupid. >> sean: burgess. >> let's kind of call it what it is. colin is a marxist. he's a pro cuba communist. at the end of the day that's what it's all about. we have an idealogy that we have to be honest about. marxist, socialists, not the american way. here's a problem that we need to be talking about. 13% of the black population, yet 40% of violent crimes is by black men. 93% of that is against black people. we've not talked about that. 83% of our black teen males are unemployed. and this has been for years. 70% of black men forsake their marriage. when men are not taught to be men. they look in the mirror, and they will rebel. we have all these black men that are riding around in their cars thinking that because i'm black

i'm going to be pulled over and not treated right instead of understanding what it is to be respectful, to understand that it's authority, and you can just as easily diffuse a situation if you don't think you're already being targeted. we have a problem with our royalty black class in this country who live the great american dream and tell other people they can't. we should man up. our real fight is not black and white, it's elitist. >> i will agree with you the fact that the war on poverty was a failure. great idea. great concept. but essentially poverty is only 2% better. yes, that was initiated by the left, but once again let's come full circle. i want the african-american home to be full and solid and full of those christian values that make us right and wrong, but here's the problem. we've got to look ourselves in the face, and many of us are more republican than we are

christian. i'm a conservative telling you that. yes, i want strong homes, but let's get the narrative proper. colin kaepernick made some atrocious mistakes in his identifying what the problem was. the pigs on the sock was ridiculous and dangerous. you cannot play fast and loose with a subject that is so important in this nation. once he got it on track i will defy you to go back and find a soundbite that was consistent with the message of your marxist communist message. >> sean: he supported castro. google it. he's praising a murder and a dictator. >> that flag represents hope for all of us. our kids loose their hope.

8-year-old kids now sitting on their helmets when a flag is going because the men around them won't tell them to stand up, man up, pull up your pants, get educated, treat women about. >> what you're talking about is in vivo versus in vitro. i'm talking about what happens right now. i'm considered rich. when i get stopped an inordinate amount of times. we've got things we need to deal with. this issue of race is about reid to explode. >> sean: burgess. >> the problem is this. we have people who have christian values that we share. you've got people who don't really share those values. they could care less about success, the true answers, and that's why the black community is the mess that it is today. people have purposely passed laws, defended those laws, and used it as a strategy. we have to understand what we're up again. >> sean: we'll see what happens. i have great respect for both of you. coming up my interview with rush limbaugh straight ahead. check it out! self-appendectomy!

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>> life from america's headquarter. the acting state secretary for health and human services replacing secretary tom price who retired after his use of private jets for business. he's the first to resign for the president's cabinet. follow reports from "political" he's been over $1 million on travel since may. that figure includes over

domestic trips on private planes. the former project governor, the president trump had this to say about tom price, and aides had said that he was a distraction. on friday, he promised to reimburse taxpayers for the cost of the seas on those flights. that amounts to $52,000. i am marianne. for more breaking news, foxnews.com. back to "hannity." >> sean: yesterday as you know we traveled to florida to interview the king of talk radio. one of the conservative thought leaders in the country for the last 30 years. rush limbaugh.en here is part two of the exclusive interview. >> sean: i talk to friends ie. know who sit in the closed door meetings with the senate. >> rush: right.fo >> sean: you have a bunch of senators in there.rv

i'll name the names. ben fast. john mccain. others, openly hostile toward the president. which raises the question, i have always viewed myself as a reagan conservative. i remember you teaching people about reagan and taxes and kennedy and taxes and playing old clips of these things. and i remember, it worked. you just mentioned reagan. it worked. what do they stand for if they don't stand for repeal, replace and the economic plan? do you believe they want the plan to go through or are they setting the country up for another failure? >> rush: well, intelligence is guided by experience. they introduced it just like they did obamacare. let's see how tough, how for a they take this. how much they fight for it or whether they just want to give credit for proposing it. to answer your question. it goes back to election night. they didn't expect trump to win. they weren't prepared for trump to win. d they are still unhappy that trump won. i think the real answer toor your question is washington

establishment both parties, it's a small club. it's elite. you can't get in it because you want to get in it. they don't have a clubhouse. but trump would never be admitted in this club no matter what he did. these guys have been runninge the country. it's donors and think tanks and the whole washington media, the whole establishment. trump is an outsider. they have been managing the country, ruling the country for however many decades. they can't afford for an outsider neophyte to come in and redo everything.si fix things in three months or fixings in aw year. show that it can be done. show that an outsider can do it. show what they say can't be done, can be done. i think they are petrified and they are all united, the republicans and democrats, not just the senate, in making sure that trump, the outsider doesn't succeed with his agenda. >> sean: don't they pay a price? they made this promise. here is the thing. you tell me.

you are closer to these people on a daily basis than i am. who are they loyal to? the donors. a the donors matter more than the voters, obviously. this obamacare thing, who doesn't want obamacare gotten rid of? the insurance companies, probably the chamber of commerce. any number of the usual big donors and the people that write the legislation in washington, k-street. they don't want it done away with. >> rush: rush limbaugh fans dedicated all these years. 30 years now on the radio. 29 and counting. okay. they got everything they want.. the house, senate and a president that wants to do these things. i amhe deflated they did not get health care done. seriously, after seven years you can't get this done? >> rush: look. i'm deflated, too. but i'm more angry about it. i think i understand it. look at alabama. the answer to this is what happened in alabama in terms

of the voters.of everybody is saying that that vote in alabama was indication that trump's base is leavingo him. that is what they want. everybody is trying to make sure that trump's base leaves him. because they can't cause it.. they have been trying to do that since before he was inaugurated. only trump can destroy that relationship. they're trying. trump endorses the wrong guy. what do they do? they have the right guy, they don't abandon trump. they had his back in that vote. they are so invested in trump because he is the only way what they believe can happen. they are not going to abandon snmp. even when he makes a mistake, they will have his back. all these stories trump was livid, trump was angry. maybe so, but he should be thankful that his voters are sophisticated enough to understand that they will do everything they can to help him move his agenda forward. that is what the alabama vote was about. >> sean: more than any other person in america you definee

conservatism, reagan conservatism. now we keep hearing this is nationalism, populism.m. i look at the president's agenda. i have some disagreements. not many.op i think he has a strong agenda of growth that will be good for the originalist on the court, securing the border. you talk about national populism vs. conservatism a lot. do you see his agenda as conservative, national populism? >> rush: i don't think the president is ideological. i said this a number of times. when he sees chuck schumer he doesn't see the guy we see. he just sees the typical new yorker, he may be dumb and stupid but he doesn't see t leftist s.o.b. we see him that way. >> sean: yeah. we see him that way. >> rush: he doesn't see himat that way. it's not a criticism. not everybody is ideological. the best definition oflo populism versus conservatism is the tax plan. the tax plan is pure populism. it's put together on the belief which is a democrat

party belief that the majority of the americans want the rich punished. or that the majority of the americans want the rich not to benefit when they can.n. it's democrat class envy argument. if what i am told is true and if the president the reason upper brackets are not going to get any relief then it's pure populism. he is simply saying where is the majority of people that i can get the most support from? he is making a calculation that there are far more people in middle class than in the 1% which is an easy calculation to make.pl the conservatism -- i don't even mean pure. the conservatism philosophy across the board, no class envy. talk about how great america talk about how great america talk about how this will spur economic growth, which will benefit everybody. you don't make victims out of some and demons out of other.od you look at the country as one giant economic engine that you have to ignite. but if you are going to leave people out of your primary

effort to cause growth, then that is populism. that is not conservatism. individual trump policies, immigration, he is instinctively conservatively on a lot of things. whether he sits in his office and says i'm going to gos. conservative on this. i don't think that happens. he has instincts, his heart, 95% right there. >> sean: i agree. so if you go from seven brackets to three and simplify the tax code. 15, 20% corporate rate. repatriation. i love his energy plan. energy independence. that will create a lot of jobs in my opinion. the missing ingredient he bought in to, well, we can't, we have to still tax the rich more. they have got enough. that is missing part of say the reagan formula. >> rush: right. but that is a liberal argument. they've got enough. whose business is it to decide who has enough?t oib when especially you are going to say we have to find a wayme to pay for this? who is "we"? government?

why can't government do with a dollar less last year. when they demand more from us we can't say no, we can't afford it. out of here. they demand it. they take it. they have a giant collection agency.ag they never do it -- sean, however many years you and i have been doing this. the budget never gotten smaller. the deficit over time has gone nationalwn but the debt still growing. it doesn't matter which party is in power. 535 people with however many people in the bureaucracy are ruining this country. not us. we are doing our best. we are doing everything we can. we elect the people we think based on what they say to us are honest and agree with us. but at the end of the day, all all this rhetoric about reducing the national debt making the government smaller and more efficient, it never happens. >> sean: when we come back, a lot more with rush limbaugh. we will talk about the deep state. later, eric trump is here on

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>> sean: welcome back to "hannity." here is the final part of our exclusive interview with rush limbaugh. you are a student of history, a student of politics. you live, eat, and breathe this. have you ever seen deep state leaks, about one a day. the democrats hate the president. the republicans are weak, many of them as you point out, they want him to fail. you have a never trumpers crowd. then ther media. all aligned against him. ever seen it this bad? >> rush: never. never have. people say that nixon was the object of hatred and derision and he was. but i have never seen -- trump is really exposing the people that do run or think they run this country. they are scared to death. they are angry. they feel betrayed by the

election. and what they are demonstrating is, they are perfectly willing, perfectly willing to get rid of trump any way they can and overturn the results of the election simply because they don't like it. the way the mueller investigation is, it's a prelude to finding crime or misdemeanor that might beor impeachable or creating a process run. funny about the mueller investigation, i hear they can't find a crime.in there wasn't a crime to start with as there should have been. what they are finding is crimes on the democrat side. trying to sweep aside.s hillary and the rigged primary against crazy bernie. never forget, folks, trump runs the department of justice right now. so nothing is over until trump does something with it. so chin up about that. >> sean: look at the powerful tools of intelligencece which we need to keep the country safe. you have surveillance, unmasking, you don't have tminimization. the case of general flynn leaking intelligence,

violation of the espionage act. a leak a day, the president has. >> rush: right. >> sean: i have never seen that in my life. >> rush: no but what happens, everything has been politicized. intelligence, politicized. no matter what they want to tell us. there is not a thing that the left doesn't try to take control over influence that does not become politicized. doe when that happens it becomes corrupted. liberalism corrupts. intelligence community look at what they are doing. they are actually making things up, like the trump dossier. whatever they can do to get trump out of office or dwindle support among his supporters and i think it's construction on display. most of it is coming from big government liberal types. but beyond that, it also, the establishment itself, i know that is a word that is thrown around. but it is the people that run the country. you don't know them. we don't know the leader is. elected members are part of

it. but they are not the power base. elected people are told what to do. they are given the money and the donations and so forth. all this is being exposed. >> sean: you said about the president, a speech at theei u.n. never before has anybody ever spoken this way to the u.n. it has never happened by an american president. you have north korea, i think a real threat. this guy is nuts. you have iran. the iranian deal will probably be there in five or ten years. the same issues of a radical armed with nuclear itapons and icbms. peace through strength. you believe it. i believe it..e how do you deal with foreign policy?ho >> rush: i think the foreignn policy like everything, mostpo everything else he is doing, i like it because it's unique. it's different. it's commonsensical. i laughed myself silly. i saw a news story that a little potbelly dictator kim jong un is so confused by what trump is saying that he is calling americans inin

washington to help them understand.an what is trump saying? you keep it up, and you are not going to exist. you keep it up, and you are going to regret it. t he calls, "what does he mean?" the people he is calling don't know. trump is a foreign object c to these people. politics in one way so phony, it's the art of not sayingli what you really mean. trump comes along, says what he means and then doubles down on it. that is why people around the country are cheering and standing up. a he talks the way they do. not in diplo-speak or political speak. he gets in, gets it and gets out. all of that is intimidating. all of it. it upsets the natural order of things the way politics is talked about. foreign policy, especially. i love it when i thinkut about all these people state department, trump says to the north korean guy, you keep it up and you don't exist. this is the way people talk to

each other. the guy apparently has gotten the message if he is calling here trying to figure out what trump means. that means he has got the message. does he really mean -- yes, he does. >> sean: i think he does. i work in the media. i honestly feel at least on cable tv i'm an island unto myself. me and some of my colleagues at fox. radio, you are more popular than ever. with all the memes and devices for people to listen to now. you watch media, you have turned over to cnn.u you have turned over to msnbc.o the president has taken them on. i watch it and, rush, they never talk about the forgotten men and women and the people in poverty on food stamps that need jobs. what the election what about. it's russia, russia, russia. conspiracy. outright lies. calling the president a lie. if you said on your radio show half of what is said dailyly

about then president obama, the whole left wing in the country would have tried to fire you. >> rush: right. it would have been front page above the fold for a week. >> sean: week? years. >> rush: good point. >> rush: good point. the media isn't media. you think of media, they have people out there looking at things where you are not. they tell you what happened. that is the news.t they don't do the news. there is no news. there is the advancement ofth the democrat party agenda. which is get rid of trump. they are totally devoted to it.a the media has been corrupt. by liberalism. sean, i don't watch cnn, msnbc. i used to for show prep.p. i have banned all content from msnbc on my show. why promote that garbage? it just makes me mad. i don't watch it. my life is actually mood wise, attitude wise huge increase for the better by turning off left wing so-called news at night. i decided to pay people.n

>> sean: i am on 9:00 now. i hope you are watching. >> rush: i turn on fox. that is the point. they are not news. they are media. agents of not just the democrat party. i think the media is the force and the power of the left. j the democrat party is the arm of it now. the media is running the agenda and promoting it. >> sean: my last question. you are going to hate this you are going to hate this so i'm giving you the heads up. you are not going to like this question. y your tv show was a big hit. when you come on tv, people want to hear from you. you have the highest rated nationally syndicated radio show in the country. huge audiences with people listen all sorts of ways. i think people would like to see you on tv. maybe an hour a week. would you ever -- i told you, you would hate it. >> rush: there is something going on. everybody is telling me. i had a couple of callers this week. did they call you and you tell them to call me? >> sean: no. i'm here as an emissary for

fox. >> you need to be on tv. >> sean: one hour a week. >> rush: one hour a week. >> sean: maybe two. >> rush: i will give you the short answer. i'm totally satisfied with radio. i'm so blessed. every day, i pinch myself over the great things the american people made possible for me by being in the audience. my tv show was collaborative. i don't collaborate. i don't know how you do your radio show. i never have one meeting. i never have one meeting. going to say beforehand. television you have three hours of a meeting for a 22-minute show. you put it in order.h floor managers. >> sean: we changed. i don't have meetings. i have one phone call, the last 20 minutes. >> rush: what happens in that phone call? you tell them what you are going to do? >> sean: 100%. >> rush: or do they tell you what they want you to do? >> sean: with all due respect to the producers i tell them where i'm going. >> rush: do you have to stick with it?h s s >> sean: no. we change it up in the last second. >> rush: improvability?

>> sean: absolutely. is that a sign of hope? i told you, you wouldn't like the question. i do know, i think people would love it. >> rush: you flatter me. you do. i appreciate that very much. i really do. >> sean: i know you don't do a lot of interviews. thank you for being on. i love your success. the country learned a lot from you over the years. and as a radio guy you paved the path. i have not had as many slingsucc and arrows because you paved a pretty wide path. you took them early on. i remember when you went outar there, i remember the pat sajek fill-in. you got hit hard. you never stopped and you kept pushing through. it has made it easier for guys like me.e. >> rush: thank you very much. it's grown, it's amazing how it's grown. that is why we are winning. everywhere except in washington. we are winning.nge the democrat can't win an election.

>> sean: i -- can't win an election. >> rush: i know. they have lost a thousand seats. this is frustrating.h: we have an opportunity we will never have.ea. >> sean: three months. >> rush: all it would take. pass the agenda. >> sean: mcconnell is the worst, rush.he he can't -- how do you not get 50 votes on healthcare after seven and a half years? >> rush: you have to find out who actually influences him that doesn't want them. >> sean: eric trump is up next. straight ahead. ♪ ? this guy. check it out! self-appendectomy! oh, that's really attached. that's why i rent from national. where i get the control to choose any car in the aisle i want, not some car they choose for me. which makes me one smooth operator. ah! still a little tender. (vo) go national. go like a pro.

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♪ >> president trump: i noticed last night, or i was told, i didn't see it but i heard everybody stood for the national anthem. that shows respect for our country, our flag and for the national anthem.dn so, you know i'm very happy. i heard that. and they should stand. you have to stand. it's our national anthem. you have to stand. >> sean: that was the president earlier today praising the players and the fans who stood in last night's game in green bay. joining us now from the trump organization, the son of the president. eric trump. good to see you. >> first interview since the baby. >> we're excited. little luke.'s o >> sean: are you tired? late nights. >> late nights. yeah. yeah.

nights but doing great.. >> sean: good for you. i thought this was important for the country. i don't know what is going to happen this weekend. i i know fans are still mad even f at the locking of arms because they think it is still a type of protest. we are not going to take a stand here and decide as a country there are certain things that will unify us. our anthem, our flag andd remembrance of all those that fought, bled, and died fighting for the flag, under the flag. thoughts? >> i don't mind locking the arms at all. i mind kneeling. my father minds kneeling. you know it's one thing i said 'sabout my father. he will fight for this country. this is another great example of him fighting for his country. not just fighting for taxes or better healthcare or fighting for best military. he is fighting for something that means a tremendous amount to the nation, to the peopleeth of the nation. that is the american flag. that is patriotism. there is plenty of time for protest, right? but just keep that one minute time it takes to sing the national anthem, keep it

sacred. there is another 23 hours and 59 minutes in a day. keep that minute sacred. >> sean: so many ways it's a win and it was a defining moment. other ways great debate for the country to have. i think the missing ingredient for this was the number of men that fought under that flag. i what it meant to them. how much they have given to all of us. we'll see what happens this weekend. i would hope this is the end of it. >> the american flag stands for everything that is great about this country. every country has atrocities and has little problems but america, we are so fortunate as people. i have traveled all around the world as you have. you have seen where countries have got it wrong. shoot, turn on the tv and look what the is happening in north korea and look at countrieses where people are starving. >> sean: starving. oppressed. >> we have problems in this country but we are so blessed on a relative basis.

you know, we should stand and we should celebrate that. when that is over we can debate our differences. that is healthy. i'm proud of him taking a stand and proud of him fighting for that flag.g. >> sean: i don't think your father is ever going to be managed in the sense that he is ever going to make decisions based on anything other than what his heart and gut tells him. i think that is a missing ingredient where people don't know about your father.a >> he's not a politician. he is not a politician. every tame you see politician out there, they choose every word perfectly. they study these little catch phrases that can apply to any person individually and never gets -- my father goes out there and he speaks from the heart. h that is why he was ultimately elected. people are sick and tired of the sound bites. people are sick and tired ofnd political correctness.op that is why government never got anything done. >> sean: i want to play video of an officer, indianapolis officer, police officer.

he was on a stretcher. he was in the motorcade of the president when they were leaving. before the president, he heard about the accident. before he goes wheels up, he made it a point of talking to this man. >> he is truly one of the most charismatic, passionate peoplee you will see. the media will not paint him that way but that is the man i know.yo i tweeted that because i thought it was beautiful. he has a phone, someone holding a phone to his ear and my father is thanking him for his service and telling him to recover quickly, heal up quickly. it's the father i know, the man i know him to be. he has a tremendously big heart.ng >> the indianapolis metroo police station sent out a tweet. "thank you, potus, wheels up to speak to injured turner." >> he never walked by a police officer in -- even prior to being in government that he didn't say thank you.. he is deeply patriotic.

you see it on the campaign trail and you saw it yesterday when he did that. >> sean: i'm watching melania. she is on her way to help people in texas after hurricane harvey. walks out of the white house. the media is so shallow, they are fixated on her shoes. melania donates dr. seuss books, which i assume you will read to luke when he is older. maybe sooner. you have a librarian right in such a nasty note to note to melania. i don't remember, your sister has been a target of this. kellyanne is a target of this. >> everybody.s.ar >> sean: everybody that isve close to the president is targeted but melania is singled out. >> she is amazing. >> sean: i met her and interviewed her. she iset amazing. >> strong. she is smart. she cares. unbelievable force in this. when would a simple thank you be enough and go a long way? i read that letter and i thought it was smug. i thought it was arrogant. here is the first lady of the u.s. my father's platform is

education. he thinks it's an embarrassment as a country we are rated number 30th in the world in terms of education. >> sean: number one in spending money per pupil. t no question. he is hellbent on fixing that problem. believe me.s it's one of the first points he made every campaign speech. he talks about it all the time. so melania goes out to promote national read a book day. something beautiful. something innocent. they donate dr. seuss books toto schools in every state. she gets criticized by a librarian. that is the divisiveness of the world we live in. thank you for the books. even if they couldn't utilize them we have people who are less fortunate and we will make sure they end up in wonderful hands. thank you for taking the n initiative. education of the youth is really important. this is a librarian. : >> sean: "green eggs and ham." >> it has to be smug, nasty response. >> sean: unfortunate. >> a shame. h she is an amazing woman.

>> sean: so, congratulations. >> thank you.. >> sean: maybe they can give copies of the books to you and laura. so you guys can read them. >> we'll need them. >> sean: congratulations on the baby.e awesome news for both of you. >> thank you. >> sean: we have more "hannity" after this break. >>

>> sean: welcome back >> sean: welcome back to "hannity." before we go i want to just take a minute and thank all of you, our very loyal viewers for tuning in. you made us number 1 in our first week back at 9:00 p.m. i want to tell you. there were people that were hoping and praying we would fail. you made it possible. p just wanted to say thank you very much. now, every night our promise to you is this. we will be fair, we will be balanced. we are not the establishment destroy-trump-media, and we'll bring you the stories that they will never tell you about. we have a great week next week, a couple of big surprises. on monday mark levine will join us. we'll be checking in with nfl fans all across the country at

games this weekend, and one really big surprise. i hope you'll join us next week. we'll always be fair and balanced. have a great weekend, and we'll see you back here. dana perino is next, straightb ahead. ♪ >> dana: good evening, everyone. i am dana perino. welcome to "fox news tonight." there's been a big shake-up in president trump's cabinet tonight. earlier thiss evening, health ad human services secretary tom price resigned after pressure for taking private charter flights on the taxpayers' dime.e. first our top story, the culture war growing even hotter. all eyes are on the nfl this weekend to see if some playersng continue with their refusal to stand for the national anthem. last night every player stood for "the star spangled banner" o during the weekly thursday gamet here's what president trump had to say about that. >> i've spoken to other owners,